mrmoshe Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Fisherman Lost, scared and nude Julie Lightfoot Tuesday, November 18, 2008 © The Cairns Post A NAKED man was found in dense rainforest south of Cairns in a bizarre rescue that has searchers scratching their heads. The man, 27, spent a cold night huddled among the trees on a steep ridge behind Bingil Bay at Mission Beach after losing his way, and his clothes, in the rainforest. He was found sitting on a log in the nude. Rescuers hauled themselves up a steep rainforested hill to get to him in territory they yesterday called "billygoat country". "He was sitting there with scratches all over him," teenage searcher Brad Figallo said. "We saw him and it was like, oh geeze. He'd said he needed some help. But we weren't expecting that. "But he was more relieved than embarrassed to see us … he told us he thought he was going to die up there." Police described the man as disorientated, scratched but otherwise not hurt when they found him about 10.30am Saturday. Sen-Constable Tony Cliffe said the man told searchers, police and ambulance officers he had no idea how he got up the ridge or where his clothes were. He said he had been fishing near the spot the previous afternoon. "They gave him water, clothes and got him down," Sen-Constable Cliffe said. He praised Bingil Bay residents who alerted emergency services and organised search parties after hearing the man's yells for help from bushland above their homes about 7am. "They took on thick, very hard-to-navigate rainforest on the side of the mountain to get to him … we don't know how he got there and he tells us he doesn’t know either," he said. The lost man is believed to be a newcomer to town. Residents, who were "still scratching their heads" over the incident yesterday, said another teenager had raced home on a motorbike to get clothes for the man and gave them to Brad who trekked back up the hill to the man and an adult searcher. They believe the hiker may have got lost after straying from a walking track up Bicton Hill, east of the ridge. The rescue comes days after another off-beat nude incident at Mission Beach, police arresting a semi-naked man found sleeping on the bonnet of a tourist’s rental car. A shocked couple called police, saying a stranger had dented their car by lying across it, and was sound asleep on the bonnet without pants. Police charged the 49-year-old Brisbane man with wilful damage. He was interviewed and then released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GregL Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 hmmmm QLD clothes snatchers are out in force at the moment....... Or the really really good stuff musta hit town Maybe they were just playing with the wrong rod! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jewgaffer Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 That's a strange one Pete. There must be a new brew up there. Can't quite work out the bloke flaking out on a car bonnet but I wonder if wild billygoats had anything to do with the scratches. Cheers jewgaffer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennmreid Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 very bizarre indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelican Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Those Swedish backackers can be real hard to get away from up there!!! RunFForrest Run Don't know about the dent in the bonnet but but the cat sleeps on the warm bonnet all the time round here. Majic mushrooms , magic mushrooms gotta love the magis mushrooms. You'd just cop the fine sweet wouldn't ya rather than have to go to court and explain what you were doing??? "well judge I had been drinking and on exiting the club there was a car with a bonnet scoop and it was calling out to me - common big boy" "and that or soon after is when I must have fallen to sleep. If you were a judge you could just say it wasn't you and say it was someone visiting from OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jigholio Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 What the media didn't report was this poor fellows total confusion over: the 1 dollar coin in his right hand the "With Compliments" slip in his left hand and the strange burning sensation in his anoos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davemmm Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 Sounds like a few Saturday nights I have had. Of course now I am over forty it never happens anymore. I promise Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyt Posted November 18, 2008 Share Posted November 18, 2008 abducted by alliens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tide'n'knots Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 abducted by alliens quick call the X FILES!!!! maybe he is the alien! I think he was certainly on another planet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty d Posted January 22, 2009 Share Posted January 22, 2009 magic mushrooms for sure, theyll do it to ya everytime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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